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Emotions

What Do You Do with Panic?

I recently returned from visiting my granddaughter, Kaili Ann, where we were celebrating her one-year birthday. While enduring the flight to her home, I thought about all the

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Building Character

Paint by Number

There was a popular fad many years ago that still seems ingenious to me – paint by numbers.  I recently discovered it’s still available and making a comeback. 

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Building Character

Discovering True Joy in Struggles

Are you waiting for the day when most of your problems are gone? When you enter a better season that’s much more suitable for your “happiness” factor? If

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Life Lessons

What Are Your Last Moments?

I do love a good country song.  There truly are no lyrics like you find in a country classic.  Recently I heard the song “Last Time for Everything”

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Building Character

You are Wonder Woman

Summer arrives with many favorites including blockbusters at the box office.   It’s a treat to enjoy a movie on a hot afternoon.  Lurking underneath the storyline of many

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Emotions

Small Things Matter

It’s funny how as adults we remember the funniest things about our parents. I remember that when I came home from college, Mother would not take me shopping

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Emotions

Imagine LOVE!

As little girls we read fairytales and believed that all stories had happy endings. For years we had no reason not to think that fairytales always came true.

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Grief & Loss

Queen of the Cemetery

I strolled the tree lined paths of the small-town cemetery. The same trail I dawdled along many years ago as flower assistant to my grandmother in the ritual

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